TripAdvisor Reviews Motel 168 (Chongqing Jiefangbei)

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... or cigaret butts on the ground! There is always someone on every street of this GIGANTIC city (it's the largest city in all of China) sweep the sidewalks with something that looks like palm leaves.

3) Money: The monetary system here is pretty straight forward but a few things are different besides the obvious. I LOVE all the different colors and designs of each individual bill. The smaller the amount on the bill, the smaller ...

Today was the first day of orientation and so it was just a lot of short speeches, Chinese language lessons and we went over lesson planning. The exciting part of the day was when we experienced a traditional Chinese style lunch, lazy susan and all! There were so many different foods to choose from and everything was pretty damn spicy, except for the sweet and sour fish.

I also meet a lot of really cool people who are participants from the ...

... lots and lots of greenery. I knew there were going to be a lot of trees since it's surrounded by mountains...but seriously...this city is one gigantic botanical garden with some concrete buildings and people thrown in!

The city has a lot of the new that is being built up, a lot of the old that is crumbling and some buildings actually made to look old. Lots of interesting things. We passed some structures, I'm going to call them slums, well, ...

... is a camera in there. Ok she let us pass. At the passport control we are pulled aside because our Passports will not register. Perfect. Now that we were set we proceeded and immediately both of us were wearing RBF's. It was a sea of asians. Seriously. Had they all be hiding at the airport? We grabbed a coffee and sat down about 3 gates away from ours. We flew to Hong Kong first and knew that there was no getting away from being ...

... need the alternative plans but during the first 10 hours of my trip I often thought about a comfortable hotel and massage! This trip proved to be quite difficult as barely anyone spoke English and the whole tour was in Chinese as I expected but I guess I expected someone to speak some English. I was worried at each stop that the bus might leave me since I never knew where or what time I should be back to the bus. On top of that my sleep deprivation did not help. Fortunately, the ...